{All authority} (p(8373)a exousia). Jesus came close to them
(proselth(936e)) and made this astounding claim. He spoke as one
already in heaven with a world-wide outlook and with the
resources of heaven at his command. His authority or power in his
earthly life had been great ( 7:29  11:27  21:23f. ). Now it is
boundless and includes earth and heaven. {Hath been given}
(edoth(885c)) is a timeless aorist (Robertson, _Grammar_, pp.
836f.). It is the sublimist of all spectacles to see the Risen
Christ without money or army or state charging this band of five
hundred men and women with world conquest and bringing them to
believe it possible and to undertake it with serious passion and
power. Pentecost is still to come, but dynamic faith rules on
this mountain in Galilee.